Massage Decreases Lumbar Fatigue – Massage in Kent WA
September 30th, 2011
Depending on which treatment session the participant was involved in that day, he or she then received either massage on the lumbar region for five minutes or rested for five minutes. Subjects were then asked to repeat the 90-second extension. Immediately after each muscle contraction, participants were asked to rate their level of fatigue on the visual analogue scale for fatigue. Electrodes were attached to the subjects throughout the session to get electromyographic (EMG) readings, which were used to measure muscle fatigue. According to the EMG readings, massage had no significant effect on muscle fatigue massage in kent wa can help you too.Massage application on the lumbar region provides significant difference in the fatigue scale as compared to rest, suggesting that massage application helped the subjects overcome the subjective feeling of fatigue, the authors stated.
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